German prisoners in a Somme trench

Category

Library Item

Item no

32695

Title

Under "Tommies" eyes: German prisoners, led by a French soldier, marching along a Somme trench

Description

From the Illustrated London News published October 14th 1916.

Artist / maker

Unknown

Date

1916

Size

39.6 x 26.7cm

Type

Press cutting; Reproduction

Over eight million men became prisoners of war during the First World War. Germany in particular took many prisoners in the first year of the war, not thinking that the conflict would continue for so long. The numbers of POWs caused problems for all sides in the conflict in terms of where to house them and how to feed them. There was accusations of prisoner brutality by all sides mostly caused by the use of them as forced labour in the war zones.

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